Eco-Activist’s Sordid Criminal History Sheds Light On Parents’ Role In Children’s Climate Crusade

Role In Children’s Climate Crusade

One of the parents of a child suing the government over climate change is a radical activist who’s been arrested several times attempting to delay multi-billion dollar energy projects.

Media reports discussing a nearly three-year-old children’s climate lawsuit have largely shied away from highlighting the role the kids’ parents play in the litigation.

A parent of one of the young people suing the federal government has a history opposing and seeking to derail major projects likes the Dakota Access Pipeline, among others.

A parent of one of the children suing the U.S. government for not doing enough to confront climate change has a long criminal record connected to her attempts to derail energy projects.

Her legal history has flown under the radar as the litigation gains more media traction.

Jayden Foytlin is among 21 young people suing the U.S. federal government for not doing more to address global warming. Media reports discussing Jayden’s story have not fleshed out the role her mother, Cherri Foytlin, played in a growing anti-pipeline movement. Cherri has been arrested at least three times during direct action protests, according to copies of her arrest records obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Cherri has become a major actor in the environmental movement, opposing a number of pipeline projects over the past eight years, including the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). She is focused on scuttling the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in southern Louisiana, even as the project nears completion. Many of Cherri’s protests and arrests have been caught on video and used to promote her demonstrations.

She can be seen in online videos resisting arrest, arguing with government authorities and refusing to leave a local sheriff’s office after claiming Louisiana officials were “bought by big oil.” Cherri’s group L’eau Est La Vie, or Water is Life, for instance, claimed on Facebook to have successfully shut down an October 2018 Energy Transfer Partners’ shareholders meeting in Texas using various direct action techniques.

Cherri has an arrest warrant out in her name for disrupting that ETP meeting, Reyna Raul, a public information officer in Dallas County, told TheDCNF. She was initially charged in October 2018 for disorderly conduct, Raul confirmed, but a judge reviewed Cherri’s case and determined in February that her attempts to derail the meeting, which was chaired by ETP CEO Kelcy Warren, was a misdemeanor.

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ETP is responsible for developing the multi-billion DAPL, a project stretching from North Dakota to Illinois that began in 2014 before former President Barack Obama signed an executive order in 2016 holding up the pipeline. He said the project would contribute to climate change. President Donald Trump issued an order of his own in 2017 allowing construction on the 1,172-mile-long line to continue.

She advocated for the end of Obama’s moratorium on off-shore oil drilling following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Cherri told U.S. senators during a rally in 2010 the drilling moratorium would mean her family could lose their home — Cherri’s husband at the time worked on an oil rig.

Cherri’s daughter began targeting oil companies fewer than five years after her mom’s foray into political activism.

“60 Minutes” interviewed Jayden Foytlin, 15, on March 3 about the lawsuit she and others are bringing against the federal government in regard to limiting fossil fuel extraction on federal lands. Jayden told CBS’s Steve Kroft floods near her Louisiana home convinced her of the need to file the lawsuit.

Children are seen during climate march prior to the opening session of the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference 2017, hosted by Fiji but held in Bonn, in World Conference Center Bonn, Germany, November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Jayden’s fellow plaintiffs, all of whom are between the ages of 11 and 22, asked a Oregon court in February to issue an injunction to prevent the government from issuing oil extraction licenses before March, when the Trump administration planned to offer nearly 80 million acres of unleased areas off the Gulf of Mexico.

Juliana v. U.S. stirred up a lot of controversy during the past three years, especially among people who support the energy industry and its workers.

People like Cherri are using their children as shields, Steve Milloy, an attorney and adjunct scholar at Competitive Enterprise Institute, told TheDCNF. His position effectively mirrors similar sentiments from conservatives who believe environmentalists are getting desperate to stop the production of fossil fuels.

“Foytlin is a case in point of an activist using her child as a human shield behind which she advances her intellectually and morally bankrupt political agenda,” said Milloy, a climate skeptic who holds shares in ExxonMobil. “Their science and economics is so bad that they gotta use kids.”

He’s argued in the past that Juliana v. U.S. is a ploy to use children as weapons against the fossil fuel industry.

Julia Olson, an environmental attorney based in Oregon who runs the nonprofit Our Children’s Trust, kickstarted the lawsuit and soon brought Jayden and others aboard her crusade, including former NASA scientist James Hansen, who joined the campaign on behalf of his granddaughter, Sophie Kivlehan.

Olson appeared on the March 3 “60 Minutes” interview and dismissed the idea that she and other adults are using Jayden and others as pawns.

“They get quite offended on that comment and at that question — they are very much using me,” she told CBS’s Steve Kroft in response to a question about whether she’s using the kids.

Their case has been held up for months. The U.S. Supreme Court in November 2018 decided not to block the lawsuit after Chief Justice John Roberts granted the government a stay in October 2018. The court’s order said the government should seek relief before the 9th Circuit.

Cherri’s group has not yet responded to TheDCNF’s request for comment about the nature of her evolution to anti-oil activist or whether her criminal record could affect her daughter’s lawsuit.

57 thoughts on “Eco-Activist’s Sordid Criminal History Sheds Light On Parents’ Role In Children’s Climate Crusade”

But you can bet she flies and drives a lot (to save the world) and heats her home and uses electricity, and phones, and on and on. this is the worst kind of hypocrite, the ends justify the means in her mind.

The Latin phrase “EXITUS ACTA PROBAT” appears on George Washington’s family coat of arms. The phrase dates back to Ovid and means: the result justifies the deed. In other words, the ends justify the means. Yup, ol’ George was a danger to freedom and democracy.

Cherri Foytlin and daughter are clearly both harmless and useless. The real problem is people in authority who don’t throw them out on their ear after their second complaint. Offhand, I can’t recall the technical legal word that is normally used to describe such “legal” time-wasting attacks. Is it “vexatious”?

Did George Washington believe that the ends justify the means? The idea that he must have held that belief because it was a phrase on a centuries old family coat of arms, is quite irrational. As was your equating him to a rattlesnake because they are both dangerous.

Your logic, Jim Masterson, reminded me of Woody Allen in the movie ‘Love and Death’, only I don’t think you are trying to be funny.

The Latin probat does NOT always mean justify, it can mean test, as in “The exception proves the rule,” where proves obviously has the latter meaning, tests.

The English word end is ambiguous, meaning either objective or result.

Exitus, however, means outcome, not end in the sense of “objective.” What we should consider is not the objective, but the outcome. In Washington’s case, the outcome was Freedom for the Colonists. The deed was rebellion. I’ll leave it to you whether it was “justified” or “tested.” Hitler’s outcomes could never justify his deeds in a thousand years.

Exitus literally means: a going out or a going forth. Other meanings include: a means of going out, exit; end, finish; and issue, result. It’s a fourth declension, masculine noun.

Acta is a participle of the verb ago, which means to set into motion or to drive. Some of the other meanings include to act, to attend to the matter of, to be concerned. Here it’s used as a Latin substantive, or it’s an adjective being used as a noun as in “the meek shall inherit the Earth.” The word “meek” is an adjective.

Probo is a first conjugation verb which means to make or find good. We get probate from it which means: one who approves as in a will. Other meanings include: to approve, pronounce good; to judge by a certain standard; to recommend as good; and to show, prove, demonstrate.

She reminds me of the kind of “parent” that convinces their 5yo son that he should “identify” and “transition” into a girl. People who don’t recognize the “science” of CAGW as rubbish … certainly don’t understand the biological science of XY chromosomes and sex organs. Science is the only VICTIM with these kind of cretins forcing their “beliefs” into it.

Exploiting children for doomsday photo ops is child abuse. Shame on these “activists.”

Don’t forget that Ira Einhorn, one of the founders of the first Earth Day nearly fifty years ago, murdered his girlfriend and stuffed her body into a trunk in his Philadelphia apartment. Months later when fluids from the decomposing corpse began to seep into the apartment below, Einhorn finally got caught. He then went on the lam and lived 23 years in Europe before being caught again, extradited, tried and convicted.

Not everyone trying to roll the world back to an eco-paradise that never existed, is squeaky clean. Maybe it’s not a total coincidence that Einhorn’s last name means “Unicorn” in English.

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‘Olson appeared on the March 3 “60 Minutes” interview and dismissed the idea that she and other adults are using Jayden and others as pawns. “They get quite offended on that comment and at that question — they are very much using me,”’

Translation: ‘ABSOLUTELY we are using children as pawns – without a lick of shame about it, either.’

That she gets upset with the accusation means she knows it and feels shame. The anger is in rebellion to the shame she feels. She attacks as a defense mechanism. She therefor is as guilty as sin and she knows it.

I was puzzled by their meaning, but I guess they were going for the triple-aliteration, and by “fast” they mean right away, or now. “Now” is a better word grammatically, but they had to have that triple-aliteration. Dumb.

True but it’s heavily processed with chemicals that pollute the air and water, so not exactly an eco-friendly material. Environmentalists are supposed to care about actual pollution as well as the non-pollutant known as CO2.

It’s too bad that some court could not force these people (meaning these children and their parents/guardians) to cease and desist from using said fossil fuels and anything made with or from them. That sort of reminds me of some lawsuits a few years ago against tobacco companies by older people who were still smoking when they sued (or continued to smoke long after warning labels were placed on tobacco products). Well, the suits got thrown out and one of the reasons for that was that if the plaintiffs knew and believed that tobacco was harmful then why did they continue using it for so long? Continuing to use a product while suing for alleged damages caused by said product generally does not look good at all in court.
It is too bad that we have such a spineless press where hypocrites like this are seldom asked such questions as to why they keep right on using fossil fuels and/or things made with or derived from them.

Speaking of lawsuits, is there any way of organizing a class-action suit against the principal members of the climate scare by people who have been screwed by the knee-jerk policies resulting from their exaggeration and dishonest research practices?

Chris White seemed like a un-bias reporter until he included this “…said Milloy, a climate skeptic who holds shares in ExxonMobil”. Really? Why include that data? Obviously Chris couldn’t contain his real bias.

There is more to this story.
Plaintiff #1: Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, Oregon
Her activist parents stopped government from managing the forests. Now she blames wildfires on “climate change.”

Plaintiff #2: Levi Draheim, Florida
He lives on a barrier island off the hurricane-prone Atlantic coast. The government is supposed to protect him from storms and rising sea level that have always eroded coastal islands.

Plaintiff #3: Jayden Foytlin, Louisiana
Her home was flooded in Rayne, LA, about 20 miles from the Gulf Coast and a mere 20 feet above sea level. She claims a right against rainstorms, even though her home is called the “Frog Capital of the World,” with numerous houses elevated on blocks.

Not sure of the legal situation in the US but here in Australia, if I bring a civil action against another party, I may be liable for their legal costs if I lose. If I win I can claim legal costs from the other party. This tends to put a bit of a damper on things by stopping speculative cases. We do have the ability to declare someone a vexatious litigant. Not sure how that works as I am not a lawyer but I have seen reports of this happening. Most often it us used against convicted criminals suing the state for infringing their rights while in prison.

The default U.S. rule is that each side pays their own attorney fees, unless a statute allows the prevailing party to recover fees in a specific type of case. For example, as part of the patent laws, a prevailing patent holder can recover attorney fees, but only if the infringement was “willful.”

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